Unknown stole the solar power supply and battery of the new seismological station in Santorini.

“Is it possible to try with all your might to watch Santorini’s earthquake activity and some unconscious to steal the solar power system and the battery of the new seismological station in the Vlychada area,” blinding “the seismological network? So much irresponsibility? “the seismology professor typically states Costas Papazachos In a post on Facebook and adds:

“Please respect the efforts of scientists, but mainly the island we are trying to protect …”

More specifically, the seismologists and scientists who were watching the earthquake-volcanic activity in Santorini were left when they discovered why an seismological station that they had installed on February 11 stopped working. Kostas Papazachos, a professor of physics in the Lithosphere, Seismology and Applied Geophysics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, tells the EIA that when they arrived at the spot they found the vandalous station, some unconscious stole the solar power system and the new seismic region. “Suddenly one night, late at 23.40, three days ago it stopped working, when we visited him we found that all the materials associated with the machine supply, solar, batteries, chargers, etc., we found the station.”

The station, as Mr Papazachos says, was placed to improve the monitoring network in Santorini, south, near Vlychada, to watch the southern part. “Most stations are installed in the countryside, away from human presence, in quiet, to be able to record earthquakes, so they need solar panels and batteries to operate autonomously, without the use of current. Throughout Greece there are no problems installed, suddenly this station was destroyed. It is extremely rare to non -existent such incidents of vandalism in seismological stations, “says the seismology professor” because there is a sensitivity of society to these machines that are valuable to seismic surveillance of the country. “

The station was placed next to a house that is not inhabited, “The owner, a well -known painter Christopher Asimis, granted us the space with great courtesy. It is a remote point, quiet on a rock, so that it does not move, “Mr Papazachos commented to add that the police authorities had responded immediately. “Thank you. The point is not only to identify the perpetrators but not to repeat this. Police cannot guard all seismological stations on all widths and lengths of the country. Police have supported us, do whatever it can. We cannot have three police officers on the day to guard an earthquake, “the seismology professor notes, stressing that” it is a matter of empathy and awareness of the citizens “about what the seismological network offers.

In the coming days the seismological station will be restored.